Climate change is a serious but in different ways overhyped or misunderstood, often deliberately by people with a vested interest in whichever solution.
The construction of a space industry will improve the wealth and the robustness of human society generally, including in relation to climate management and human adaptation, the problem is that it will take a lot of time and effort before it really starts to bear fruit.
The idea that Mars is being used as a lifeboat is ridiculous.
As people are all too keen to point out, Mars is a barren, irradiated and practically airless world; under no reasonable climate scenario is earth going to become as inhospitable as Mars.
Even if it wasn't, the '1%' that people bemoan are entirely dependent on the rest of the population to support their social existence, a good parasite doesn't kill the host.
>>13751875Literal child's understanding of political economy.
